How can evidence from economic evaluations of the type the Disease Control Priorities project have synthesized be translated to better priority setting? This evidence provides insights into how investing in health, particularly though priority interventions and expanded access to health insurance and prepaid care, can not only save lives but also help alleviate poverty and provide financial ris...

This commentary discusses the interesting and surprising findings by Hagen and colleagues, focusing on the role of the public health coordinator as a Health in All Policies (HiAP) tool. The original article finds a negative association between the employment of public health coordinators in Norwegian municipalities and consideration of a fair distribution of social and economic resources betwee...

To the Editor: The cohort study investigating the stage theory of grief by Dr Maciejewski and colleagues presents a review of the literature that we feel is selective. We believe that the variability in the nature and course of grief makes it untenable to maintain that “the stage theory of grief remains a widely accepted model of bereavement adjustment. . . .” Not everyone goes through an order...

The history of science will record the latter decades of the twentieth century as the apotheosis of the cognitive–developmental tradition in developmental psychology. This tradition has its obvious source in Piaget’s genetic epistemology and in his remarkable research program on the ontogenesis of children’s logicomathematical and scientific reasoning. But the extension of the tradition’s influ...

The present research aims to develop a model and assess changeability grounds in public organizations. The statistical population includes public organizations in the cities of Lamerd and Mohr. The research includes three fundamental stages, each of which tries to answer a key question. To devise a proper model, we initially study the theoretical literature of change management and the resistan...

patients and methods the current quasi-experimental study was conducted on 96 eligible females, who were allocated either to the case or the control group and were selected from homes in the border of zahedan city (southeast of iran) during 2010. convenience sampling by door-to-door visits was used for finding eligible cases. a ttm-based self-administrated family planning questionnaire was used...